The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-22
THE CREATING
AND INTERSTATE coM,MEnoE
tho Standard OH Trusts Hela'
d tions with Rnilroads-IiloKal Disorimi.. Z
nations in Favor of tho Octopus Al.
II legged : Mr. Rioe's Allegations.

WAanlSdros, D. O., Nov. 2l.-Tho In.
tsr.state Commerce Commission to-day
began the hearing OF complaints In the
Standard OIL cases. Theso are the com.
plants oi George Rice, OF Marietta, Ohio,
against a number OF railroads, alleging
against the same discrimination in favor oI
the Standard OIL Company, against other
violations Of the long and short haul pro.
vision and against all unreasonable and
unjuHt rates. "A
Fifty or sixty gentlemen arc in attend.
auce, lawyers aud Witnesses, and tho pro.
ceedings are likely to consume several
days. There are thirteen petitions in all,
but only ten OF the cases are being tried at
this time. Mesurs. J. Randolph Tucker,
Roger B. LoomiS and A. D. Follett appear
for tho complainants. The railroads arc
Represented as follows: s. H. Noble and
Ed Baxter for the l.. 4 n; IL. Ruesel
for the Mobile & Ohio; Holmes Gum.
minga for the Newport News & Mlseissip ippi
Valley and tho New Orleans, Louiayille 4
Texas; Il. B. Money for the Miaeiesippi &
Tennessee and the Illinois Central; Ed.
ward FelBton and Charles NJ. Gist for the
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pa.
cifc; John 8. Bland and Thomas ]. Port
are Tor the st. Louis. Iron Mountain <
Southern, and William Baxter for the
East Tennessee L Georgia. Y.
GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE PUBLIC.
The hearing promises to bo the most no.
table one yet brought before the Commits.
sioneru, and the outcome ID likely to bo
decidedly tho best tess there has yet bean
Of tho value to the country OF the Com.
mission, and Of the law, as 1t now stands.
II derives It's Importance from tho isctthat
the Standard Oil Trust is the beneficiary
Of tho DETERMINATIONS, and also on &C.
count oil tho gtr6ugth and vlgor with
which the case 10 likely 10 be prosecuted.
Men representing all tho Ioads against
which tho ComplGintH are made ara sub.
poeaned and 30 arc many Standard Oil
men. Tho Trustees Of the Standard Oil
Trust are: John Rockefeller, President;
William Rockefeller, Vice President; Hen
ry NJ, Flsgler, Secretary Benz amin Brews.
ter, ]. D. Archbold. Charles Pfatt, E. II.
Rogers and ". II. Tillord.
MIR. Rice claims that not only the Inter
State law has been no bar to the Standard
Oil Trustin obtaining determinations /. It's
favor from the railroads, but tina. it has
been OF decided advantage to 1t IN ena.
bling such iavorc to be given. To aubasan-
tiate this be relers to tho financial straits
to which re6nsre have recently been re-
duced who were doing business in oposi-
ton to the Trust. 1t ID well known that
there arc but lew SUCH rsfners, and that
their number and the amount OF their buai-
ness haye been comparatively inconsider-
able for tho past ten years. Tbs Keystone
Oil Company litigation is case in point.
1t ID interenting from tho fact that, beBides
the Keystone Oil Company, three other
refining companies, all In measure re-
lated to and having business with the
keystone Company, and which stood by
each other, in difficulties, are insolvant,
and their difficulty was competition with
the Standard Oil Trust. These additional
companies are ths Buffalo Lubricssing
Company, limited the CLARK .; Wasren
Company, OF CORY, Pc, and the Excel
sior Refining Company Of Cleveland.
These companies have been doing busi-
ness for somo years, and help to make up
the one.teIth or one-twentieth refining
interest OF the country that Ia not contro!l-
ed by the Standard OIL Truns. ~